Cookbook Love Podcast

Today's interview is with Jeremiah Bills. Jeremiah grew up close to his Portuguese heritage. He started baking to connect to his Portuguese roots. After a trip to Portugal, he fell in love with the country’s baking traditions. As a self-taught baker, Jeremiah appeared on ABC’s Great American Baking Show where he connected to people hungry to learn about Portuguese desserts. Jeremiah is the co-host of the podcast FLOUR HOUR, while writing a Portuguese Dessert cookbook, & teaches baking classes in his hom

Today on the podcast I share an episode about the seasons of our lives and 5 seasonally-focused cookbooks. Every week when I create a solo show for this podcast I ask myself - What can I share today that will help or inspire the people who listen to this podcast? Most often the answer comes from what’s going on in my daily life. So let’s start there as I look over the past week.

In this 27th episode of the podcast, I celebrate my first 6 months of podcasting with a look at a few trends I see my favorite topic for cooking - home cooking. As a registered dietitian and dedicated home cook, I pay attention to what people are eating and cooking. In this podcast episode, I cover my take on what’s going on in the world of home-cooking.

Hello and welcome back to another Episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast and today I am talking about cookbook stories. When I interview cookbook readers, buyers, collectors, and clubs on my podcast, Cookbook Love, I like to ask their favorite feature in a cookbook. So many say they love stories. So this brings me to the question of stories, and recipes, and do the two belong together in cookbooks? Are cookbooks mere instruction manuals, or do they do more for us?

Today I welcome back for her 2nd interview, Jenny Hartin, of The Cookbook Junkies and publicity director for Eat Your Books.  Today in our conversation, Jenny and I discuss what’s on the horizon for cookbooks in 2019 and new books Jenny’s excited about including Gnocchi Solo Gnocchi and The New Pie. We also discuss the work done by Eat Your Books in their Best of the best cookbooks list for 2018, as well as the upcoming revision of the classic dessert cookbook The Last Course by Claudia Fleming.

Recipe headnotes are an optional part of a recipe and their appearance determined by the recipe-writing style of the author or the publisher. But, for many of the reasons I’ll discuss today, cookbook lovers and cooks in general love recipe headnotes. They add personality and liven up the writing in a cookbook. It’s up to an author if they want to use headnotes in their cookbook, as well as what information an author wants to include in a headnote.

Today I discuss why people write cookbooks and who they write them for. Chefs, dietitians, bakers, and cooks may have a desire to write a cookbook, but they each have their own reasons for wanting to do so including to share expertise, teach a skill, inform about a cuisine, promote a business, and many more. I believe that it’s important to remember the judgment of a cookbook, belongs to the reader and user, as they answer the question if the author delivered on his or her promise of the book.

Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Today I feature a solo show based on a blog post where I covered what I consider to be the myths many believe about writing a cookbook. My goal is to fan into a flame the spark of cookbook writing interest if you want to write a cookbook, but perhaps believed any of these myths. In this episode, I talk about each myth and how an aspiring cookbook writer can use these myths to their advantage and get started on a cookbook project of their own.

Today on the podcast, I feature an interview with Cookbook Collector and author of The Book Club CookBook Judy Gelman. This is a unique episode for the podcast in that I won't be typically focusing on traditionally published cookbook authors. But the book I feature today intrigued me, so I reached out to coauthors of the BookClub Cookbook Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp about an interview. The Book Club CookBook explores the connection between books and food in book clubs all across the country.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today on the podcast I have a fun interview with Lisa Trent. Lisa lives in NJ and works at the Ridgewood Public Library. At the library, Lisa organizes and maintains The Cookbook Club. In this interview, Lisa also discusses how the library “weeds” out cookbooks from their collection, sells used cookbooks to their patrons, and her thoughts on trends in cookbooks from her work in the library.

Today I feature our first interview for 2019 with Laurie Bakke. Laurie lives in NC & her life has been immersed in food, cooking, and cookbooks. Laurie ventured into a world of fresh, seasonal cooking when Cafe Laurie, and a kitchen store/wine cellar, Sage Gourmet. Laurie has self-published her own cookbook and tends to her cookbook collection. She loves cookbooks to keep up with cutting-edge ingredients & to plot her cookbook club's next adventure.

Happy New Year! Welcome to our first episode of 2019. For me in business, 2019 is all about transforming cooks and bakers into confident cookbook writers. To become a cookbook writer, every writer must first encounter themselves, their time, and others. Enjoy this episode where I share my 7 Steps to Becoming a Cookbook Writer, as well as an invitation to become a founding member of the Cookbook Writers Academy.

Interview with Sara Bir. Sara has a love for cookbooks and this began as a child when she used her mom’s cookbooks to “make messes in the kitchen.” Sara went on to attend the Culinary Institute of America because she wanted to write about food. Sara describes herself as a cookbook reader and collector and believes that cookbooks have made her who she is today. In our interview, we talk about her collection of cookbooks from the 1950s - 1980’s as well as resources for those who love food history & re

Today I interview Cookbook Reader and Military Spouse Jenna Miller. Military family life most typically involves relocations. In this episode, Jenna discusses the locations her family has lived with her husband who is Active Duty Air Force. As a result of these relocations, Jenna has leaned on cookbooks for many reasons. Cookbooks help her recreate familiar foods when they were living overseas and helped her recreate the foods they experienced in Italy and around Europe.

Today I interview Janine Kolotyluk who is the Senior Community Educator at ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen in Edmonton, Canada. ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen has provided household advice and recipes for 85 years. One of the ongoing traditions at ATCO is the production of their Holiday collection cookbook. Enjoy this interview today as we learn more about Janine and her love of cookbooks as well as about the history of the Holiday Collection cookbooks written by the home economists at ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen.